• Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    What the actual fuck? How the fuck does that even work? So if you don’t have any Internet connection you can’t use the goddamn start button what the

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      22 hours ago

      No, I think it works without a network connection. But it’s an Electron a React Native app now, which means it’s a glorified webview displaying an HTML document pretending to be an app because apparently even Microsoft don’t give a shit about MAUI.

      Electron apps (and similar shit like React Native) are notorious for being slow and extremely resource-hungry. You know, exactly what you don’t want a care part of your OS to be.

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        24 hours ago

        It’s worse that that. Only parts of the start menu are in react native (but it still needs to initialized every time you open it)